"The grass grows and the warbler flies in the February sky, and the poplars and willows on the embankment are drunk with spring smoke", "The world is full of fragrant flowers in April, and the peach blossoms in the mountain temple are in full bloom"...... In the immature and crisp sound of reading poetry, students from Jiangsu Drama School, Changjiang Road Primary School, and Changjiang Road Primary School and Kindergarten performed "Shangchun Mountain" with dance and singing, leading the audience into a beautiful season filled with the fragrance of books and flowers. On the morning of April 20, the 15th Nantu Reading Festival, the 2024 Public Library Publicity Week and the launching ceremony of "Reading China along the Canal" were held in Nanjing Library.
"Yesterday was Gu Yu, the last solar term of spring. I think today's opening ceremony and our Reading Service Week, especially the large-scale event of 'Reading China along the Canal', with the strong blessing of all the leaders, guests and experts here, will definitely thrive like everything in the valley rain." Chen Jun, director of Nanjing Library, said in his speech. As a provincial-level public library in Jiangsu Province, Nanjing Library has actively promoted the construction of smart libraries in recent years, launched the "remote online borrowing" service, and the number of books borrowed from outside the province is nearly 25,000 per year, with readers all over the country; vigorously promoted the innovation and development of public cultural services, and launched the "You choose the book, I pay" activity, since 2016, the book code has exceeded 50 million yuan, has provided 134,000 books to Xinjiang, and the number of books has exceeded 6.7 million yuan; For conservation and restoration work, there are currently 13 ancient book restorers in the museum. "In the six batches of national rare ancient books, one out of every 10 ancient books is in Jiangsu Province, and one out of every 20 ancient books is in the Nanjing Library. ”
Qian Gang, Deputy Director of Jiangsu Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, delivered a speech and announced the opening of the event. Qian Gang said that in recent years, the national reading work in Jiangsu Province has achieved great results, and public libraries at all levels in the province have conformed to the trend of the times and carried out a variety of reading activities, focusing on the construction of new offline reading facilities and platforms, and constantly introducing new measures and activities for online reading. Over the past 14 years, Nanjing Library has continuously held the Nantu Reading Festival, integrating academicity and popularity, history and reality, and using books as a medium to interpret history and life, which has had a great social impact. "In the new era, as the spiritual and cultural needs of the people become more and more diversified, personalized and refined, we must continue to optimize public cultural services, guided by Xi Jinping Cultural Thought, adhere to the people-centered work orientation, and take standardization, equalization, branding, and digitalization as the key path to continuously improve the coverage and effectiveness of national reading activities. ”
A Grand Canal, half of Chinese history. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the successful inscription of the Grand Canal of China on the World Heritage List, and the launching ceremony of the large-scale reading promotion activity "Reading China along the Canal" was held simultaneously at the scene. At the launching ceremony, the leaders of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism presented flags to the representatives of the libraries of 8 provinces (cities) along the Grand Canal and the directors of 16 municipal public libraries in Jiangsu Province. Starting from Jiangsu, with the canal as the link and the public library as the bridge, through a book, a city, and a group of people, we can feel the beauty of the canal, the beauty of literature, and the beauty of reading, and inject new vitality into the cause of reading for the whole people.
At the opening ceremony, the award ceremony of the 13th "Nanjing Library Taofeng Book Award" was also held, the list of outstanding readers in 2023 was announced, and the launching ceremony of the 3rd "Bright Reading" Flash Mob Competition for Visually Impaired Readers was held. Nanjing Library signed a strategic cooperation agreement with China Literature Group, Eastern Airport Group Co., Ltd., China Eastern Airlines Jiangsu Co., Ltd., and Xinjiang Yili Prefecture Library. On behalf of the family, Lin Xiaobin, the great-grandson of Lin Zhendong, a famous cultural scholar of the Republic of China, donated a batch of ancient books that have been treasured by his family for a long time and spanned more than a hundred years to the Nanjing Library for scholars to study the essence of Chinese culture.
This series of themed activities officially kicked off on April 20 and lasted until May 31. Nanjing Library will also invite cultural masters such as Li Bo, Su Tong, Ye Zhaoyan, and Wang Gan to Nantu to hold more than 60 activities in ten sections, including theme series activities, library publicity, reading recommendations, lectures and training, and public welfare exhibitions.
(Jiangnan Times reporter Ji Chuantao)